Code review has become one of the most important (and used) techniques when it comes to code quality. The code review process may have very different workflows and subtleties, but it is often driven around the following steps: The developer respo...

This month Slack announced to have raised $200M on its most recent financing. At the same time I started to turn off Slack during working hours.One chat to rule them allSlack (just as Hipchat, and many other alternatives) are messaging apps for t...

Last week GitHub released another new feature: GPG signature verification.While it may seem something new, Git already supports signing commits and tags with GPG . Still, GitHub turned easier to verify if the commit is signed by the author, introd...

Following up my previous post on mapping json objects to Scala models, it is time to present some more advanced use cases.In the past weeks I have found myself in cases where a little more ‘magic’ was needed: Read dates from the json (org.joda.Da...